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Buteo (hawk)
Taxonomy
Buteo was named by de Lacepède (1799). It is extant. It is the type genus of Buteoninae, Buteonidae.
It was assigned to Buteoninae by Hay (1930), Wetmore (1940), Wetmore (1956) and Bickart (1990); and to Accipitridae by Lambrecht (1933), Schultz and Howard (1935), Galbreath (1953), Wetmore (1962), Carroll (1988), Alcover (1989), Olson and Rasmussen (2001), Mlikovsky (2002), Clements et al. (2017) and Tambussi et al. (2023).
It was assigned to Buteoninae by Hay (1930), Wetmore (1940), Wetmore (1956) and Bickart (1990); and to Accipitridae by Lambrecht (1933), Schultz and Howard (1935), Galbreath (1953), Wetmore (1962), Carroll (1988), Alcover (1989), Olson and Rasmussen (2001), Mlikovsky (2002), Clements et al. (2017) and Tambussi et al. (2023).
Species
B. (Triorchis), B. ales, B. antecursor, B. brachypterus, B. buteo, B. conterminus, B. contortus, B. dananus, B. dondasi, B. fluviaticus, B. fuscescens, B. grangeri, B. hoffstetteri, B. jamaicensis, B. lagopus, B. lineatus, B. nitidus, B. platypterus, B. pusillus, B. quadratus, B. regalis (syn. Falco ferrugineus), B. rufinus, B. solitarius, B. spassovi, B. swainsoni, B. typhoius
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1799 | Buteo de Lacepède |
1828 | Archibuteo Brehm |
1930 | Buteo Hay p. 315 |
1930 | Archibuteo Hay p. 316 |
1933 | Buteo Lambrecht p. 415 |
1935 | Buteo Schultz and Howard p. 276 |
1940 | Buteo Wetmore p. 35 |
1953 | Buteo Galbreath p. 40 |
1956 | Buteo Wetmore p. 41 |
1962 | Buteo Wetmore p. 7 |
1988 | Buteo Carroll |
1989 | Buteo Alcover p. 98 |
1990 | Buteo Bickart p. 40 |
2001 | Buteo Olson and Rasmussen p. 297 |
2002 | Buteo Mlikovsky p. 192 |
2017 | Buteo Clements et al. |
2023 | Buteo Tambussi et al. p. 275 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. Buteo de Lacepède 1799 [hawk]
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Subg. †Buteo (Triorchis) Kaup 1829
†Buteo ales Wetmore 1926
†Buteo antecursor Wetmore 1933
Buteo brachypterus Hartlaub 1860 [Madagascar buzzard]
Buteo buteo Linnaeus 1758 [common buzzard]
†Buteo conterminus Wetmore 1923
†Buteo contortus Wetmore 1923
†Buteo dananus Marsh 1871
†Buteo dondasi Degrange et al. 2021
†Buteo fluviaticus Miller and Sibley 1942
Buteo fuscescens Viellot 1819
†Buteo grangeri Wetmore and Case 1934
†Buteo hoffstetteri Campbell 1976
Buteo jamaicensis Gmelin 1788 [red-tailed hawk]
Buteo jamaicensis borealis Gmelin 1788 [red-tailed hawk]
Buteo lagopus Pontoppidan 1763 [rough-legged hawk]
Buteo lineatus Gmelin 1788 [red-shouldered hawk]
Buteo nitidus Latham 1790 [gray-lined hawk]
Buteo platypterus Vieillot 1823 [broad-winged hawk]
Buteo pusillus Ballmann 1969
†Buteo quadratus Wetmore 1937 [Bahama red-shouldered hawk]
Buteo regalis Gray 1844 [ferruginous hawk]
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Invalid names: Falco ferrugineus Lichtenstein 1836 [replaced]
Buteo rufinus Cretzschmar 1826 [long-legged buzzard]
Buteo solitarius Peale 1848 [Hawaiian hawk]
Buteo spassovi Boev 1998
Buteo swainsoni Bonaparte 1838 [Swainson's hawk]
†Buteo typhoius Wetmore 1923
Invalid names: Archibuteo Brehm 1828 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available